Book Reviews

Spectator

Female partisans played a vital role in fighting fascism in Italy — but it was a thankless task

2019

Telegraph

Sabotage and intelligence: meet the women who made D-Day happen

2019

Telegraph

The Free State of Bavaria: the extraordinary rise and fall of the ‘writers’ republic’

2019

History Today

An enthralling study of the power of aerial women and their challenge to patriarchy

2018

Telegraph

Inara Verzemnieks, Among the Living and the Dead

2018

Telegraph

'I don’t feel guilty. Why would I?’: the chilling memories of Goebbels’s secretary

2018

Telegraph

Aviation’s first love triangle scandal: The story of The Lost Pilots

2018

Spectator

Anita Leslie: sparkling socialite with the Croix de Guerre

2018

History Today

A Jewish woman’s journey through Nazi Germany and Vichy France to safety in Switzerland

2018

Spectator

The CIA, the Vietnam deserters and the aptly named Operation Chaos

2018

Spectator

Six of the best female spies in Nazi-occupied France

2017

Spectator

Bogdan Stashinsky: the inspiration for The Man with the Golden Gun

2016

Spectator

Keeping up appearances in 1940s Paris

2016

History Today

No Husband Needed – I Fly a Spitfire

2016

History Today

Churchill’s Mavericks: Plotting Hitler’s Downfall

2016

Spectator

Mud, blood and war crimes on both sides – the struggle for the Ardennes was one of the bitterest of the second world war

2015

History Today

Dermot Turing, PROF, Alan Turing Decoded

2015

History Today

Sophie de Schaepdrijver, Gabrielle Petit, The Death and Life of a Female Spy in the First World War

2015

Spectator

The History of Modern Germany Within Four Walls

2015

Spectator

Was Operation Thunderbolt the most daring mission in history?

2015